DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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United States seeks forfeiture of real estate in Mexico purchased by cartel leader Rafael Caro Quintero with proceeds of his drug trafficking organization

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – A civil complaint against eight real properties located in and around Guadalajara, Mexico was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn. The properties described in the complaint are alleged to have been purchased by Rafael Caro Quintero with drug proceeds obtained through his leadership of the Caro...
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DEA to accept vaping devices and cartridges as part of National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

NEW ORLEANS – With robust public participation over the course of 17 prior events, the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Initiative continues to remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to misuse, theft or abuse by family members and visitors...
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Major methamphetamine supplier for the Mississippi Gulf Coast sentenced to life in prison for conspiracy

GULFPORT, Miss. – The Drug Enforcement Administration announced David Quevedo Martinez, 40, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced yesterday by a senior U.S. district judge to life in federal prison for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. Martinez was also ordered to pay a...
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36 arrested during joint law enforcement initiative in northern Alabama

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – A joint federal, state, and local law enforcement initiative has resulted in the arrests of 36 individuals on a variety of criminal charges, including drug trafficking, money laundering, using communication facilities to facilitate drug trafficking and various firearms offenses, announced the Drug Enforcement Administration. The majority of...
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Staten Island doctor pleads guilty to illegally distributing oxycodone

NEW YORK - United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey S. Berman and Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's New York Division, announced today that Carl Anderson, a state licensed doctor, pled guilty to writing medically unnecessary prescriptions for oxycodone...
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Johnstown man sentenced to 60 months on heroin and fentanyl conviction

ALBANY, N.Y. –Victor M. Diaz, age 30, of Johnstown, New York, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison, to be followed by four years of supervised release, for possessing and intending to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin mixed with fentanyl. The announcement was made by United States...
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Alleged Mexican drug kingpin charged with leading a continuing criminal enterprise and other drug-related charges

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – A superseding indictment was filed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Vicente Carrillo Fuentes with running a continuing criminal enterprise, as well as firearms offenses, money laundering and other drug-related crimes through his leadership of the Juarez Cartel, a violent drug trafficking organization. Carrillo Fuentes was...
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Staten Island brothers plead guilty to opioid distribution conspiracies

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Joseph Calabria pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone, and to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Last week, on Sept. 23, 2019, his brother, Michael Calabria, pleaded guilty to conspiring to...
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Members of “Mike’s Candyshop” drug delivery service charged with distributing heroin and cocaine

NEW YORK - Geoffrey S. Berman, United States attorney for the Southern District of New York; James P. O’Neill, commissioner of the Police Department for the City of New York; Peter C. Fitzhugh, the special agent in charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations; and Ray...
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Bergen County man admits money laundering

NEWARK, N.J. –A Bergen County, New Jersey, man today admitted conspiring to launder the proceeds of narcotics activity, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. Bobbie L. Henderson III, 36, of Edgewater, New Jersey, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler in Newark federal court to an information charging him...